The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-11-17
Winter DaiTying.

The advantages OF winter dalry1ng
are not all summed up III the article
jrom a Wisconsin woman, which we
quote below from the IYesteym Farmer.
The fact are that winter dairying
means better farming IN every way,
better buildings, better feeding, better
cattle, better care, more profit and
more comfort, with better bank bal
auce AS the good woman says, why
not try it." She writes
1. Our farm will keep one-third
more cows; this may seem odd to
many, but it is fact; it takes more
land to keep COW five months in
summer than it does-~ winter her
seven months.
2. We get az many pounds OF butter
per COW, and more than twice as much
per pound for our butter. 1t is better
for the COW 10 come in October and
November than in the spring she has
been dry two or three months, has had
abundant exercise hunting her living
on scanty pasture and fighting flies !;
her health is better, her muscles are
stronger to stand the strain than they
could be if tied up in the barn most Of
the time for three or four months pre-
vious.
3. It is better for the man. In the
busy time Of haying and harvesting
he has not been compelled to quit at a
certain time, when tired and out of
patience, to milk those COMPOUNDED
cows" La the fall and early winter
he has plenty of time to devote to
their welfare, and if he has comfort
able barn (and none but idiots would
have anything else for cows it is much
more comfortable milking in winter
than in summer, and then he has the
satisfaction of knowing he is not lying
still all winter and grumbling because
farming don't pay,
4. 1t is better for woman, because
| it is much easier to keep the milk,
cream and butter from getting too
cold in winter than it is to keep them
from getting too warm in summer.
There is not half the care about it,
and then the glorious vacation for two
or three months from all care of the
milk in the hottest days, when extra
help and city company come and go,
and above all, the possibility Of going
away for few days without feeling
you are sadly neglecting the milk.
Why shouldn't we fairness wives have
a vacation like all the city people, and
what time in the year is better than
| the early fail? It is neither too hot
nor too cold; good roads, horses idle,
and away we go, intensely enjoying
our we'll earned holiday, and come
back refreshed to our winters work
We had grave doubts about making
winter dairying pay everybody said
it took lots of extra feed; and SO
it does we feed twice as. much as
We used to, but when we count
our profits we find it pays to feed
We have found by experience that it
is extra feed that gives US all our pro
fits, and that in fact it costs but little
more to make pound of good butter
in winter than in summer. You must
feed in winter to make butter in sum
mer, and why not change around and
make most of the butter in winter
You can do it without much if any
expense or loss. Let the cows go far
row three or four months longer; they
will give a paying amount Of milk
longer for that time, and the first you
know you will be into winter dairyins
and receiving greater profits. Why
not try it?- Guernsey Breeder.